Career
Later he served as a civil servant and became known as an historian. During World World War II he directed the Free French propaganda radio broadcasts to Europe. After the war he helped create France"s state-owned publishing house, Louisiana Documentation Française.
Crémieux was born to a middle class Jewish family in the Colombes suburb of Paris.
He graduated from the Lycée Condorcet in 1933. But it was first during a school vacation in 1931 that he visited Germany and in subsequent trips saw first-hand the work of the Nazi Party.
